Kimberly > Kimberly's Quotes

“I think that's what a fresh start is all about. Not ignoring the past, but seeing it through the eyes of God, through the eyes of grace. Knowing where we've been and where we're going. A fresh start isn't about forgetting; it's about perspective.”
― Susan May Warren, Licensed for Trouble

“Just because you're strong doesn't mean you shouldn't ask for help sometimes. Remember that.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“Perfect days are for people with small, realizable dreams. Or maybe for all of us, they just happen in retrospect; they're only now perfect because they contain something irrevocably and irretrievably lost.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“Other people can't make you feel stupid. Only you can.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“He's more like me, I think: burdened with the realization that what goes on his mind is somehow different from what goes on everyone else's. Even those close to us. And how you can't think about that for too long, because that thought- the truth of your own isolation- is too much to bear.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Not feeling like I belong anywhere has made me crave constant motion; standing still feels risky, like asking to be a target.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“His two front teeth are slightly crooked, veer just a tiny bit to the right, as if they've decided perfection is overrated. His smile is like unlocking a riddle. How does an imperfection make him seem more perfect?”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“You know how it is. Mean girls get mean in seventh grade and they stay that way until your ten-year reunion, when they want to be best friends again.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“There was a stiff bell-pull instead of a doorbell that Teddy had to yank hard for any result. They could hear a faint ringing somewhere beyond the fortress-like front door. No footsteps of anyone rushing to open it. It was a house in mourning, Teddy supposed.”
― Kate Atkinson

“That was the moment at which he realized that he had possibly become unhinged. What did it matter? The whole world was unhinged.”
― Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

“He wanted to be deafened by the thunder of her engines, he needed to be drained of every thought by the cold, the noise, the equal amounts of boredom and adrenalin. He had believed once that he would be formed by the architecture of war, but now he realized, he had been erased by it.”
― Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

“My point is that things become weird and pointless if you examine them for too long.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't take.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

“Clara didn't carry a grudge. They were too heavy and she had too far to go.”
― Louise Penny, The Long Way Home

“Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction.”
― Louise Penny, The Long Way Home

“This soft little helpless creature wiggling and squirming in my arms tugged at my heart in a way I had never felt before. How could that happen in thirty seconds? Surely there was a word for this stronger than love. Holding her made me feel like I had come home after a very long trip that I hadn't wanted to go on. I couldn't take my eyes off her. Her existence somehow soothed me. My life up until this moment seemed like a series of hits and misses. Then someone had placed this gift in my arms that I didn't deserve, and now my life made sense. Just like that.”
― Celeste Fletcher McHale

“You only know you can do something if you keep on doing it - P.S. I Still Love You”
― Jenny Han

“Hope can't hurt”
― Ruth Reichl, Delicious!

“You did not have to understand miracles to believe in them, and in fact Mabel had come to suspect the opposite. To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as you were able before it slipped like water between your fingers.”
― Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

“Who would think than an adolescent boy would have anything to teach an old woman? But it was Garrett who had led her into the fields and closer to the life she had pictured for herself in Alaska. She could think of no way to explain that to him. With a mother like Esther, surely he could not imagine a woman doing anything against her will, or worse yet, not knowing her own will. It was as if Mabel had been living in a hole, comfortable and safe as it might have been, and he had merely reached down a hand to help her step up into the sunlight. From there she was free to walk where she would.”
― Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

“Could I ever be as brave as the dream version of myself? I do not believe so.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“Nevertheless, I ask—because my heart and mind refuse to quit quarreling. Because love and truth are in a tangle that I wish to unravel.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“There is no cure for being who you truly are.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“What I choose to believe does not change what is true.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“I forget so easily that there’s a bigger picture. I’m easily seduced by the bustle of the day—lunch and laundry, deadlines and dinnertime. I forget that it’s all held together by a holy, loving God, and that we get to be his partners in restoration and healing. I forget that there’s more than I see, more than I can dream.”
― Shauna Niequist, Savor: Living Abundantly Where You Are, As You Are

“Anyone could run around, not many could quietly wait. As they did now. But that didn’t mean Chief Inspector Gamache and Inspector Lacoste did nothing. As they waited they took in their surroundings.”
― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In

“But, like peace, comfort didn’t come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.”
― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In